Google, Yahoo! expand cell-phone options
Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are expanding the content they offer on mobile phones, a further sign of the growing connection between the Web and wireless services.
Google introduced software Monday that lets users search for local businesses and view maps and satellite images on handsets, the company said.
SBC Communications Inc. said it will introduce a Cingular cell phone next year that links to Yahoo! content.
The plans highlight the eagerness of Internet and mobile-phone companies to attract consumers who want to use their phones to view information while on the move. Mobile phones outsold personal computers by an almost 4-1 ratio last year, researcher Gartner Inc. said. Handset sales grew 30 percent, more than twice as fast as PCs...
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